She can pay all her bills without working a minute, so ANY work she does is straight up pocket money. With 125 pounds a week from her part time, she can save up 2000 pounds a year for vacations even after buying some mid-range brand clothes.

CSB time, one of my Hungarian cousins moved to the UK where after a few years of working here and there she ended up getting involved with a washed-out British wannabe musician many years older, and they ran a little studio that went under right when the economy tanked. Around then she got pregnant too, and the kid is now going on 2 years old with no real work seen in that family since.

I asked last time I saw her a few months ago, she said he does DJing on the weekends but that's too tiring for him to find a job during the rest of the week, so they just live off of benefits. The fact that you can just do this in the UK evidently amazes me.

Many Lithuanians are smoking hot. This is not one of them. And it's not fraud. Fraud would be claiming a child she didn't have or a dead relative. Like she say and the author points out it's all legal (and fraud is by definition not legal) what she is doing. This is what happens when you disincentive work and do not put an end date on benefits.

Linux_Yes:in the USA, the big payouts go to the huge farm owners and other big ticket boys. we have scruples here.

Hardly. I know of people who keep their special needs kids alive just because they get a weekly paycheck from the State. I'm not talking "Little billy has social skill problems" special needs. I'm talking "Little billy is dependant on a trach and g-tube, and his brain turned to mush years ago" kind of special needs.

I wonder what questions the reporter really asked, and how she really responded. This could easily be a case where they wanted to talk to people who have been helped by the welfare system - people who would otherwise be hungry or homeless. I sincerely doubt she was so cavalier and flaunting of her life on the dole - she was more likely grateful.

However, by the time the Sun was done with the editing (and embellishing) she comes off like the UK version of a US "welfare queen". The Sun used her to support their agenda of destroying the UK safety net.

I had cousins before welfare reform who lived on government assistance. Believe me, there is nothing luxurious about living on $600 a month in the 1970s. They barely scraped by, even though three brothers shared expenses. Of course, they didn't have a clue about how to manage money. All they did was eat junk food and stay up all night watching TV and slept all day. None of the three lived to be over 55 years old. Not a life I would wish on anyone. Poor nutrition and sedentary lifestyle plus depending on substandard health care usually sends these folks to an early grave.

Story is fake or embellished. Yes, you can live in the UK on benefits and not lift a finger and the Sun and Daily Mail will always have stories of one person who gets a luxury house or flat, but the vast majority of people will live in a council flat or mid terrace two bedrooms short of what they should be and they will eat Tesco value chips and the sausages that are only 51% actual meat. Just barely scraping by.So she is obviously doing a job where she doesnt have to report the income to the government. And a "holiday" can be a mid week, three day trip on a Ryan air flight that costs £30 and hotel or bed and breakfast that costs the same. Eat the same chips and sausage and you have yourself a super cheap holiday. Dont fall for the British derp.

GAT_00:Yeah, this story isn't totally fake and designed to stir up conservative Brits.

They don't really need stirring up. I have heard at first hand some of them saying stuff lke "if only we had taken the olive branch Hitler offered in '41, we wouldn't have all these...." (eyes shift back and forth in case brown people are in earshot) "...social issues now."

Yeah, because all those colonials and Poles would've been lampshades by now, eh, Brigadier Pip, pip, what?

The Liberal Utopia - government stealing from the working guy to pay off some tax-evading, freeloading doucebag. Put these motherf***ers in a government factory, 16 hours of hard labor a day, and we'll beat the Chinese at their own game.

WhoopAssWayne:The Liberal Utopia - government stealing from the working guy to pay off some tax-evading, freeloading doucebag. Put these motherf***ers in a government factory, 16 hours of hard labor a day, and we'll beat the Chinese at their own game.

And I thought the US media had a complete lack of ethics. I would not be surprised if this story was outed as a complete lie in a few days. Well, that or it will be found on FreeRepublic stirring the paranoid minds of our "American Patriots".

She sure seems to be making good money (as an actress who will hire herself out to The Sun to falsify a story in order to validate one of Murdoch's favourite faux bugbears "Immigrants Steal Benefit Money!".

shotglasss:GAT_00: Yeah, this story isn't totally fake and designed to stir up conservative Brits.

Citation needed.

FTA:"She also rakes in £125-a-week from a job she has on the side - perfectly LEGALLY.And despite the Coalition's looming cap on benefits - which Labour will again vote against tomorrow - Natalija vowed: "I am not going to work like a dog on minimum wage.""

Bold was in the article, and the quote about not working like a dog is a nice frame for the sentence about the vote, ... So it looks like it's lets just stir this pot a little before the vote tomorrow to me.